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January Issue 2004
Davidson County Community College in Lexington, NC, Features Group Exhibit Showcasing Texture and Color
A new art exhibit will open Jan. 20, in the Davidson County Community College Mendenhall Building in Lexington, NC. The title of the Spring Art Exhibit is Color and Texture, and it will be on view to the public through May 20, 2004. Some pieces in the show are tactile, while others are extremely colorful, thus suggesting the show's title Color and Texture. Styles range from realistic to abstract and almost every art medium is represented.
All artists are from
North Carolina except one from Atlanta, GA. Photographer Christie
Ponjican lives in Lexington, while painter Jeffrey Jamar Wagner,
a Davidson County Community College student, is from Thomasville.
Two artists are from Winston-Salem, two from Bethania, and Advance,
and two from Durham and Roaring Gap.
The following artists and work will be featured: Elizabeth Davis
of Roaring Gap (acrylic and collage), Albert Dean from Advance
(metals), Elaine Dowdell of Winston-Salem (oil on linen), Anna
Hamilton from Winston-Salem (acrylics, oils and watercolor), Trena
McNabb of Bethania (acrylics), Ray Pierotti of Atlanta, GA, (mixed
media), Christie Ponjican of Lexington (photography), Arunabha
Sengupta from Durham (oils), and Jeffrey Jamar Wagner of Lexington
(mixed media).
Elizabeth Davis paints with acrylics but likes collage. She states "By blending textured shapes and color in an unconventional way, I strive to encourage the viewer to explore and find as much enjoyment as I had in the creation. For me, creativity results in pushing beyond the everyday."
Albert Dean works almost exclusively in metals. He says, "My work deals with how our belief structures affect the way we perceive ourselves and our environment. I have chosen to portray people and events using steel and copper to represent both our resistance to change and our malleability. "
Elaine Dowdell prefers to work in oils on linen. She says, "Drawing and painting are among the basic imperatives of my existence. They satisfy my ever-present urge to express my joy in seeing the world around me and to celebrate the way things look. My realistic style reflects these feelings and serves my desire to represent my subjects as honestly and faithfully as possible. "
Anna Hamilton loves to work in abstract in any medium. Her artist's statement captures her life-long experience of expressing herself in words but now, she has gained a new vocabulary: line, color, pattern and movement, with emphasis on color. Her compositions are abstract or non-objective, open to interpretation by the viewer.
The art of Trena McNabb "is a curious and elegant synthesis of realism and imagination." She works in acrylics and typically paints large canvases of allegorical scenes. In this show is a collection of what she terms, "details," which are tiny glimpses of life.
Ray Pierotti also works in mixed media of his own design. "Unlike traditional painters who try to hide the nap or weave of the canvas or paper, I find the natural fibers to be an integral part of the "fabric," a part of the creative process. One is always aware of the surface on which the work is painted; this is not unlike the instrument on which music is performed."
Christie Ponjican, a photographer, "has a desire to focus on life's elegance in the simple things." The photographs were taken in her various travels, primarily those to Sri Lanka. Ponjican encourages the viewer to take time to look into the pages of her memory.
Arunabha Sengupta paints in oils. His paintings "are reflections of some moments that have captured and entangled some unique emotions within themselves. The inanimate objects I chose are alive with the touch and association of human lives starting from their creation to destruction. I pick up my brush to converse with my soul."
Jeffrey Jamar Wagner, a DCCC college transfer student, is also a multi-media artist who works in cultural and abstract paintings. He loves to sketch and paint subjects that evoke new and revealing ideas, and he often incorporates compelling free verse poetry into, around and on his painted images, mainly of people.
Artist Sandra Cieszewski coordinated the spring art exhibit at DCCC.
For more information
check our NC Institutional Gallery listings or call Teenie Bingham
at 336/249-8186, ext. 239.
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